Stafford County will not be holding a live graduation ceremony this year.
The cancelation comes after Gov. Ralph Northam has announced that no gatherings of 50 people or more can take place.
"Our school division very much wanted to honor your important accomplishment with a traditional senior class graduation ceremony," said Superintendent Scott Kizner in a letter to students on June 9.
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The driver of a 2003 Ford Focus that crashed on Prince William Parkway last night has died on June 8 as a result of severe injuries.
This single-car crash occurred near Golansky Blvd. in Woodbridge in the evening hours of June 7. The driver was headed eastbound and lost control of the vehicle.
The vehicle ran off of the road, hit a tree, and was overturned causing the unrestrained driver to get ejected from the car.
A helicopter transported the driver to a trauma center, but after suffering a heart attack the driver was transported by ambulance to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center.
Alcohol and drugs are not believed to be factors in the crash, police have reported. No one else was in the car.
Prince William police have identified the man as 22-year-old Ezekiel Josiah Gales of Dumfries.
The southbound entry ramp for the Interstate 395 E-ZPass Express Lanes near Edsall Road is closed for repair work.
The specific cause for this closure has not been released yet.
The next available entry into the southbound I-395 E-ZPass Express Lanes is just after the Franconia-Springfield Parkway near Backlick Road.
Crews are investigating the ramp. The timeline for reopening the entry ramp hasn’t been determined yet.
The City of Manassas experienced a brief power outage on Monday morning affecting 493 customers.
The culprit - a squirrel.
At 8:25 a.m. the power went out. It was restored in 23 minutes.
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About 700 protestors marched through downtown Fredericksburg on Sunday afternoon in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The protests come after the death of George Floyd that sparked nation-wide outrage.
"We were not expecting this much of a turnout at all," said Caylee Curfman, one of the protest organizers.
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Marchers in Fredericksburg walked the path from the Dorothy Hart Community Center to Shiloh Baptist Church, commemorating the Walker Grant High School graduating class of 1950.
The 27 graduates of the sole Fredericksburg high school that was open to African American students were supposed to have their graduation ceremony at the, then, Charles St. Community Center.
They could only hold their graduation ceremony here, however, if the African American attendees (including graduates, teachers, and family members) went through the side door, not the front.
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Several big projects are in the work for the landfill through the Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management Board (R-Board) including a new landfill cell, glass recycling program, and wheel wash system.
The R-Board has had an overall drop in revenues for the fiscal year 2020, yet they’re still on-budget since they were ahead of it prior to the coronavirus pandemic taking hold.
On the commercial side, revenues have dropped 10-15%, but revenues on the residential side have actually gone up around 15%.
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The Fredericksburg City Council just approved a $545,000 plan to fix up the asphalt and pave over sections of William Street and Blue and Gray Parkway.
The William Street section will stretch from the Blue and Gray Parkway to Washington Avenue by the city cemetery.
“It’s a stretch of highway that really does need this work,” said Doug Fawcett, assistant city manager.
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On May 26, the Fredericksburg City Council held a public hearing to discuss proposed revisions to their budget for the fiscal year 2021.
The revised budget total is down 7.5% from the March 10 recommended budget, coming in at $95.7 million. This is also a 5.9% decrease compared to the 2020 fiscal year.
Assuming a June re-opening, the new budget proposals estimate $90.1 million in revenue. The extra $5.6 million would come from the fund balance.
